With cocaine flooding Europe through ports big and small, EU leaders are preparing to discuss sanctions against the gangs running the trade
EU leaders are set to discuss tougher action against organised crime at their summit in Brussels next week, as cocaine becomes more available across Europe and domestic drug production continues to grow.
Drug trafficking has two sides: an external one, with drugs entering Europe through global trafficking routes, and an internal one, with more production taking place inside Europe itself.
A report published by the EU drugs agency on Tuesday paints an “alarming picture” of Europe’s drug market, Magnus Brunner, the internal affairs commissioner, said.
On the external front, the EU wants to go after criminal networks along the whole supply chain: from production countries, through transit routes, to European markets.
